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Patrick_68000

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North Korea prepares a new launch of missile before the joint naval manoeuvres between South Korea and the United States which begin the next week.

Satellite photos showed the transport, from hangars near Pyongyang and in the region, of ballistic missiles mounted on the launchers, according to a government source. This could include the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, which could reach Alaska, or Hwasong-12, which Pyongyang threatened to fire to the US territory of Guam, in the Pacific. The North could also prepare to test a new Hwasong-13, another intercontinental missile whose reach could eventually reach the west coast of the United States.
 

Bob Lighthouse

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Bob Lighthouse
This op-ed made me think of this thread and others like it.

The media remains so caught up with the president’s tweets that it has missed Mr. Trump’s project to transform the rest of the federal judiciary. The president is stocking the courts with a class of brilliant young textualists bearing little relation to even their Reagan or Bush predecessors. Mr. Trump’s nastygrams to Bob Corker will be a distant memory next week. Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett’s influence on the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could still be going strong 40 years from now.

Mr. Trump has now nominated nearly 60 judges, filling more vacancies than Barack Obama did in his entire first year. There are another 160 court openings, allowing Mr. Trump to flip or further consolidate conservative majorities on the circuit courts that have the final say on 99% of federal legal disputes.
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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017...y-while-press-freaks-out-over-his-tweets.html


People have been falling for the diversions since the campaign.
 

Zak Gordon

Zak Gordon
'Democrats push bill to stop a Trump pre-emptive strike on North Korea':

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...top-a-trump-pre-emptive-strike-on-north-korea

The “No Unconstitutional Strike against North Korea” bill is the second legislative attempt to curtail’s Trump power to start a war unilaterally. Earlier this year, a bill was introduced to prohibit the president from ordering a nuclear first strike against a foreign adversary without a declaration of war by Congress, amid concerns over Trump’s belligerent language, erratic behaviour and frequent tweeted threats against other countries.

The new legislation prohibiting an attack on North Korea without congressional authority was launched by Democrats John Conyers in the House and Ed Markey in the Senate. It has two Republicans among the 61 backers in the House, but at present no formal Republican backing in the Senate.

“As a veteran of the Korean war, I am ashamed that our commander-in-chief is conducting himself in a reckless manner that endangers our troops stationed in South Korea and our regional allies,” Conyers said.

“President Trump’s provocative and escalatory rhetoric, with threats to unleash ‘fire and fury’ and ‘totally destroy’ North Korea, cannot be allowed to turn into reality,” Senator Markey said. “As long as President Trump has a Twitter account, we must ensure that he cannot start a war or launch a nuclear first strike without the explicit authorization of Congress.”
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Kinda shades of Doctor Strangelove? :(
 

FuzzySpider

FuzzySpider
Zak Gordon said:
'Democrats push bill to stop a Trump pre-emptive strike on North Korea':

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...top-a-trump-pre-emptive-strike-on-north-korea



Kinda shades of Doctor Strangelove? :(
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Think Trump will even make it that far? Look at this (PDF).

https://www.justice.gov/file/1007271/download

Mueller is making his move.

Seriously folks, have a good read of that. The USA is about to go through some serious internal political strife, it just won't have the spare capacity to deal with NK as well.
 
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